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Topic Lesson 1: //**A Package for Mrs. Jewls**//

Common Core Standards

RL5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. W5.3b Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. W5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will use story structure to summarize the text. 2. Students will organize story details in a story map. 3. Students will write a short response to literature. 4. Students will write a fictional narrative paragraph. 5. Students will edit and revise fictional paragraph.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts Poems
 * __Wayside School is Falling Down__, by Louis Sachar
 * __ What is Gravity? __ by Lisa Trumbauer
 * "The Gravity of Gravity," by Harley White

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Activities
 * []: Experience Gravity Free Water
 * "Defying Gravity" from //Wicked;// Students will analyze the song and discuss the message being conveyed.

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 1-2 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T53 and R18 3. Weekly Test 1.4-1.5

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